Friday, December 6, 2013

Can you imagine participating in a protest outside the White House and
forcing the entire U.S. government to resign? Can you imagine a group of
randomly chosen private citizens rewriting the U.S. constitution to
include measures banning corporate fraud? It seems incomprehensible in
the U.S., but Icelanders did just that. Icelanders forced their entire
government to resign after a banking fraud scandal, overthrowing the
ruling party and creating a citizen’s group tasked with writing a new
constitution that offered a solution to prevent corporate greed from
destroying the country.

The constitution of Iceland was scrapped and is
being rewritten by private citizens; using a crowd-sourcing technique
via social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. These events
have been going on since 2008, yet there’s been no word from the U.S.
mainstream media about any of them. In fact, all of the events that
unfolded were recorded by international journalists, overseas news
bureaus, citizen journalists and bloggers. This has created current
accusations of an intentional cover up of the story by mainstream U.S.
news sources.

"In the year since the horrific shooting
in Newtown, CT, our state
legislature, by mandating guns on playgrounds, parks, and restaurants
and bars families frequent, has increased the chances a child will be
shot, not
decreased it, as other, more responsible states have done. . . "

“Moms Demand” is the newest astroturf spin-off of Bloomberg's MAIG cabal of anti-gun mayors. This incarnation is particularly insidious as it
claims to represent mothers concerned about the safety of their children.

Nothing could be further from the truth. They want kids to continue to be defenseless
targets in “Gun Free” schools, just like the Sandy Hook victims were.

“Moms Demand” is actually a small group of elitist gun
control extremists led by former Monsanto communications executive Shannon Watts. Watts is a PR expert
and hired hand on Bloomberg's payroll. The “Moms” angle is morbidly intended to divert sympathy
following the Newtown tragedy, a ruse they intend to exploit to it's fullest on the rapidly approaching December
14th anniversary.

Gun
control is founded on lies, and “Moms” is no
exception. First, the group claims to have 120,000 members, with 6000 in
North Carolina. This despite existing less than a year and only having
only
two “members” that have been identified in our state.

More
recently Staples, Inc., an office supply chain that recognizes state
carry laws has come under attack. “Moms” have
been attempting to brow-beat local managers into posting against lawful
carry. Desperate to claim victory in an over-promoted and
under-supported
campaign, they dishonestly claimed victory in a Virginia outlet, perhaps
thinking that nobody would notice. Thankfully, our northern friends of
the
Virginia Citizens Defense League were monitoring the situation, and blew the lid off “Moms”
subterfuge. The location in question remains unposted and management reports no plans to do so.

We are grateful for critical assistance by radio station WBAG and specifically Harry Myers'
TalkLine show for getting out the word on the proposed open carry ban.

Volunteers Needed!

Second
Amendment supporters with writing talent and computer skills are needed
to help in creating
communications and alerts. If you are capable in these areas, please
consider volunteering. Your help is needed in our fight to preserve
Second
Amendment freedom. Please email alert@grnc.org with a description of your abilities and contact
information.

The OECD is out with new global rankings of how students in various countries do in reading, science, and math. Results of the full survey can be found and delved into here.

You can see below how Asian countries are obliterating everyone else in these categories.

The United States, meanwhile, ranks below the OECD average in every category. And as the WSJ notes, the US has slipped in all of the major categories in recent years:

The results from the 2012 Program for
International Student Assessment (PISA), which are being released on
Tuesday, show that teenagers in the U.S. slipped from 25th to 31st in
math since 2009; from 20th to 24th in science; and from 11th to 21st in
reading, according to the National Center for Education Statistics,
which gathers and analyzes the data in the U.S.

The Union County Sheriff said that one cross monument has been
recovered after several of them were stolen from a Union County
cemetery.

Sheriff David Taylor said the cross was recovered from an area scrap dealer in Union County on Friday.

Taylor
said a person working at the scrap yard saw FOX Carolina's coverage of
the cemetery theft and notified the sheriff's office.

Union
County deputies said sometime within the past month, a thief or thieves
went into the Flat Rock Cemetery in Jonesville and stole two of the
metal monuments near grave sites for Confederate veterans.

Rebecca
Gault, who has family buried at the cemetery, said she believes the
monuments were stolen sometime between monthly visits her family makes
to the cemetery.

Cody Long has been warned by Mason High School to stop wearing a Confederate flag belt buckle to school.

The teen started wearing the controversial belt buckle to the Mason,
Ohio school after the friend, who gave it to him, died (video below).

“I don’t like to pick fights that much,” Long told Fox 19. “I am not one to start them, but I am one to finish it.”

Mason
High School officials suspended Long over getting into a fight over the
belt buckle, but his mother, Tammy Long, defended her son, “Just
because you are offended by something, doesn’t meant you have to stop
someone else from using it.”

“He won’t be ‘him’ if someone continues to tell us how to be and how to dress and how to act,” she added.

Following my interview with the father of fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn and subsequent articles on the issue of Extortion 17, I purchased a copy of Billy Vaughn’s book titled Betrayed: The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father. As I am about halfway through the book, I have already come across information that needs to get out into the public via FreedomOutpost.com. With that in mind, two days after Thanksgiving, Mr. Vaughn called me, and I made sure it would be OK in making this first post as well as other posts to follow. This is a lengthy post, but America needs to know what her Special Forces are having to endure under the current administration and how they are being demoralized, ultimately making them less, shall we say, “special.” That is using the SEAL’s words below.

The following is a letter the Vaughn received from his son Aaron in 2010, just before he was killed aboard Extortion 17 in Afghanistan, along with nearly 3 dozen Special Forces in what was the largest loss of life in the Afghan War. Mr. Vaughn is not sure if Aaron wrote it or if another SEAL wrote it and so he simply says that the author is anonymous. I suggest reading my interview with Billy Vaughn for some background that is relevant to what is being said first, if you have not read it. If you wish to purchase Betrayed: The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father, click here to order a paperback or electronic copy.

With the permission of Billy Vaughn, here is the raw version of the letter (pgs. 76-82).

Jeremiah Bunch of Scandia, Kan., had a feeling that the 4 ½-year-old
whitetail he first spotted in 2011 had the potential to be a truly
special buck, so he let it walk—not once but a half-dozen times over the
course of two deer seasons. This year his patience paid off when he
killed the Sunflower State giant after the formerly symmetrical 4-by-4
sprouted a gnarly, 17-point non-typical rack that gross-scored a
whopping 215 inches.

He was once assigned to Army mission reconnaissance during the first
Gulf War in Iraq. Like too many veterans, his life after the service
translated into a series of challenges that finally had him living on
the streets.

The man, who doesn't want to be identified, was befriended by a
business owner in the Aldine area, who gave him a place to park his
truck, which doesn't run. The man lives in it when it's cold. In return,
he keeps an eye on the property at night.

Before 1am Thursday,
that arrangement was put to the test. Three armed robbers were trying
to break into a mobile home used for storage on the property. The vet
scared them off -- or so he thought. But he did rattle them enough that
one of the robbers dropped his weapon.

An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic
near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the
theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two
bystanders, according to an indictment unsealed in State Supreme Court
in Manhattan on Wednesday.

Andrew Touhy is one of the more cerebral gun writers and trainers out
there, and when he decides to put an idea to pixels, it is almost
always worth reading.

Yesterday, he posted “An Open Letter to Anti-Gun Politicians, Activists, and Citizens,”
which proposed that if the various citizen control groups aren’t
anti-gun bullies, really want to exercise “gun sense,” and are serious
about “compromise,” then there are some areas in which they should be
willing to to make rational amendments to federal guns laws.

He points out three very logical candidates for amendment.

removing suppressors from the NFA registry

creating 50-state concealed carry reciprocity with decent standards

ending import restrictions on firearms otherwise legal in the United States

Awhile back Robert Redford made a movie about the hanging of Mary Surratt which was called The Conspirator. Although
I have not seen it, I have been told it was fairly good. Redford, I
guess, didn’t get it all right, but he got some of it right–almost a
first from someone from Hollyweird. Redford has never been one of my
favorite movie entertainers. I’ve always felt he was a bit left of
center and I am curious as to why he chose the topic of Mary Surratt’s
demise by the U.S. government to make a movie out of. When the DVD gets
down to an affordable price, if I can find it, I will pick one up to see
exactly what he did with Mary Surratt and her tragic story.

After the assassination of Obama’s spiritual ancestor, Abraham
Lincoln, eight people were put on trial and found guilty–four sentenced
to long prison terms and the other four sentenced to hang. One of those
sentenced to be hung was Mary Eugenia Jenkins Surratt, the first woman
ever to be hung in the United States. John Wilkes Booth had supposedly
been shot (that’s another whole story in itself) and John Surratt,
Mary’s son, had escaped to Canada. Eventually he would make his way to
Europe. These eight seemingly were all that were left and the government
wanted to make sure they talked as little as possible to anyone.

She didn't have enough power to maneuver and effectively trade
artillery rounds with enemy vessels in the swift Savannah River.
Instead, the locally produced CSS Georgia, a one-of-a-kind ironclad
produced for the Confederacy during the Civil War, became a stationary
floating battery, bristling with artillery pieces.

She did her job.

The Yankees, intent on taking Savannah, Georgia, refused to take on the CSS Georgia or other nearby defense obstructions.

The CSS Georgia won the
battle, but lost the war: The vessel was scuttled in December 1864
shortly before Union forces took Savannah and presented the city to
President Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas present. The shipwreck has
rested in the murky river since, rarely disturbed and having weathered
the indignity of being hit during dredging a couple of times over the
years.

Hispanics' approval has fallen from 75% in December 2012 to 52% in November

President Barack Obama's job
approval rating averaged 41% in November, down 12 percentage points from
53% last December, his high-water mark since his first year in office.
Hispanics' approval has dropped 23 points over the last 12 months, the
most among major subgroups, and nearly twice the national average. His
approval rating also showed above-average declines among low-income
Americans, nonwhites, moderates, and moderates who identify with or lean
toward the Democratic Party.

“[Democrats] just spent all year trying to effectively
destroy the gun lobby, so why in heaven's name [should] we give them
this Christmas present?" -- GOA’s Michael Hammond on the plastic gun ban
(ABC News, Dec. 3, 2013)

The U.S. House of Representatives did a very dangerous thing Tuesday -- and, apparently, it did so with the consent of one gun organization.

By voice vote, the House slammed through a ten-year reauthorization of the poorly drafted 1988 plastic gun ban.

Lest anyone be confused about how the anti-gun Left views this, USA Today
crowed, on the front page of Wednesday's newspaper that the “HOUSE SAYS
YES TO ONE GUN BILL -- Plastic gun ban only firearm legislation to pass
since November.”

Taken alone, this gives the Obama administration, if it
chooses, another three years to use the 1988 law to ban large numbers of
guns.

But there is an even bigger danger: Chuck Schumer held a press
conference the same day to indicate that he will use the House-passed
bill as a vehicle to pass even more gun control. We don't expect to
know Schumer's bill number or language before he actually offers it, but
it will purport to deal with guns from 3-D printers, while actually
being much broader.

So here's what we are doing: We are asking our friends in the
Senate to put a “hold” on any effort by Schumer to amend the House
bill.

The Senate will only be in session four or five days next week
before the House goes out for the year, and Schumer may not be able to
get time on the Senate floor without “unanimous consent” from all
senators.

So, by doing this, we would force Schumer to give up on his
vehicle for banning printer-guns if he wanted any reauthorization of the
1988 bill. If Schumer remains adamant, there will be no
reauthorization at all. Even if he capitulates, we'll see what happens.

It's not a perfect outcome. But we think it's an outcome we can probably achieve.

ACTION: Click here to Contact your Senators.
Ask them to oppose any effort by Senator Chuck Schumer to add gun
control to the H.R. 3626, the plastic gun ban reauthorization which
passed in the House.

If there is ONE video on YouTube that I wish will go viral it will be
the one I've embedded on this page featuring a courageous Soldier of
Christ, Dr. Peter Hammond, sharing truths our modern-day era is fast
forgetting. My wish will obviously never materialize, because far too
many people in the world have been horribly mislead and indoctrinated by
the covert elite’s massive and untiring propaganda machine.

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”― Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969 – 1974) - from her autobiography, My Life

NOTE: The video shared in this posting mentions the propaganda-film Invictus. Click here to read more about the movie on this blog.

While I agree with the all too familiar contention that we should
put the past behind us and move on, I have a major issue with
propaganda that distorts or attempts to erase the truths of a previous
era that I, and a substantial amount of other people, lived our lives
in.

While keeping these truths alive is one of the reasons why this blog
still exists, I sometime get the feeling that most people do not really
care whether this notion is sustained, or not. Perhaps they’re too
afraid to stand up for what they truly believe in – too afraid they’ll
be shunned by the rest of the herd. This topic will then also be the
subject of my next posting titled: Propaganda = War = Public Relations.

Every day, we are forced to wade through an internet
filled with articles and information about the War
Between the States from the perspective of those who
would rewrite history to fit their Anti-Southern
agenda. Almost a year ago , Va Flaggers TriPp and Jack Lewis had an idea to try
and do something about
it and we launched the Confederate-Friendly search
engine

The site is family
friendly, and has fast, free access to facts and
information that has been screened and streamlined
to make searching for information about the War
Between the States faster and more productive.

(1) We only index one topic: Southern History and
Heritage from 1828 to present. (Type "Lee" on google
and see how many results come up for LEE JEANS
instead of General Lee... Then try ours.)
(2) We have quicker updates to our listed sites.
(3) We offer another place to locate information
should google ever decide to censor the content in
their search engine.
(4) We will allow only accurate information in our
search engine. Hate pages, and sites with inaccurate
and false information will be removed.
(5) No Pornography.
(6) With this new site, WE can start cataloging and
documenting OUR Heritage and History for generations
to come and REMAIN in CONTROL of this database when
other search engines come and go.
We asked everyone to help us improve the search
engine by doing the following:

(1) USE IT! Use it when you're researching the WBTS,
ancestry, or any search related to the CSA. The more
it is used, the better the results will be when
people search in the future.

(2) Add your favorite websites using the link on the
front page of the search engine.

(3) If you see a link with inaccurate information or
a link that should not be included, report it on the
home page by copying and pasting the link from your
address bar into the space provided on the website.

So...how's
it going...?

We are 11 months old now with over 1.3 million
links in our database. Our content database is
over 600 million records. We have had over 11,000
searches which is pretty good considering the only
advertising we have done is on Facebook through
different Confederate Heritage pages. The search
engine has been shared through different home
schooling website and pages, as well.

One of the reasons we created the website was to
be able to have access to information when other
sites fail or disappear. The recent government
shutdown allowed us to test this. When the Govt
took down websites with maps and other historical
information, we were still able to provide cache
copies of these pages to users who were searching
for them.

*The first one is a database of Confederate
Soldiers, in which users enter their ancestors'
information. Folks will then be able to login and
instantly pull up all links related to their
ancestors, as well as be notified when new links
have been added.

*The other project is we will be attempting to
data mine and identify descendants of Confederate
soldiers for the purposes of recruiting new
members to the OCR/UDC/SCV and other
organizations, as well as possible help meet the
new VA requirement regarding the need to have next
of kin request headstones.

WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP! Please continue use
the search engine for research, and add
links that you find that would be useful.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.